Peter Guttridge
Peter Guttridge (born in Burnley, Lancashire) is an English novelist and critic.[1]
Life
He was educated at Oxford University and Nottingham University, he is a former Director of the Brighton Literature Festival and remains a regular chairperson at major UK book festivals. Since 2014 he has been co-director of Books By The Beach, the Scarborough Book Festival, which runs each April. [2] A freelance journalist for twenty years, specialising in literature and film, he has interviewed numerous writers from around the world and many high profile actors and film directors.[3] He has also written about astanga vinyasa yoga.[4] He was the Observer newspaper’s crime fiction critic 1999-2011.[5]
Between 1996 and 2005 he wrote an award-winning series of satirical crime novels featuring a yoga-obsessed journalist, Nick Madrid, and his tough-as-nails sidekick, Bridget Frost.[6][7] His latest publications are the non-comic Brighton crime trilogy: The City of Dreadful Night, The Last King of Brighton and The Thing Itself (formerly God's Lonely Man).[8] The Trilogy is published in French by Le Rouergue.[9] A fourth Brighton novel, The Devil's Moon, was published in 2013. A fifth, Those Who Feel Nothing, was published in May 2014 and in its French edition in 2016. He has also written an e-novella, The Belgian and The Beekeeper, set on the Sussex Downs in 1916, in which Sherlock Holmes is asked by a celebrated foreign detective to investigate Dr Watson.[10]
Bibliography
Novels
- No Laughing Matter. Headline. 1997. ISBN 978-0-7472-5645-8. (reprint Speck Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-9725776-4-9)
- A Ghost of A Chance (1998)
- Two To Tango (1998)
- The Once and Future Con (1999)
- Foiled Again (2001)
- Cast Adrift (2004)
- City of Dreadful Night (2010)
- The Last King of Brighton (2011)
- The Thing Itself (2012)
- The Belgian and The Beekeeper (novella, e-book original, 2012)
- The Devil's Moon (2013)
- Those Who Feel Nothing (2014)
Short Stories
- Don’t Think of Tigers [Editor] (2001)
- The Great Detective; (The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, 2002)
- The Postman Only Rings When He Can Be Bothered (The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, 2002; Crime Scenes, 2008)
- The Library Sign (The Illustrated Brighton Moment, 2008)
- The Man With The Pram (Criminal Tendencies, 2009)
- God's Lonely Man ('The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime", 2014 - this story the winner of the 2013 Graham Greene International Festival Short Story Competition)
Non-Fiction
- The Great Train Robbery (2008) [11]
References
- ↑ http://www.speckpress.com/authors/guttridge.html
- ↑ Official website & booksbythebeach.co.uk
- ↑ Official website
- ↑ Official website
- ↑ Guttridge, Peter (2008-07-23). "Peter Guttridge". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ↑ Harrogate International Festival biographies
- ↑ British Crimewriting: An Encyclopaedia (Greenwood Publishing)
- ↑ Official website
- ↑ Official website
- ↑ Official website
- ↑ http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/peter-guttridge/great-train-robbery.htm
Sources
- Barry Forshaw: British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood World Publishing)
External links
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